Custer and the Little Bighorn

Elizabeth Bacon Custer "BOOTS AND SADDLES" OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER Dedicated TO MY HUSBAND THE ECHO OF WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN MY INSPIRATION. ONE of the motives that have actuated me in recalling these simple annals of our daily life, has...

The Battle of Little Bighorn An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse recorded in pictographs and text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881. Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of the American Indians, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American...

THE BATTLE OF THE WASHITA November 27, 1868 General Custer's 7th cavalry against Black Kettle's Cheyennes Source: Gregory F. Michno, ENCYCLOPEDIA of Indian Wars 1850-1890, pages 226-227 "On November 12, 1868 , 11 companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt....

A NEWSPAPER AND THE WASHITA VICTORY Emporia News Archives (from microfilm) Emporia News, August 21, 1868. INDIAN MASSACRE. We clip the following news from the Junction City Union of Saturday last. We stop the press to record an Indian outbreak of a horrible...

"Custer, the controversial life of George Armstrong Custer" by Jeffry Wert. The outlines of Custer's life are familiar to all: After graduating last in his class at West Point, he rose to become the Union's youngest general on the strength of his flamboyance...

- BOOK REVIEW - "The ABC of Custer's Last Stand" (by Arthur Unger) : this is a blunt straightforward account of the Little Big Horn with no holds bared. It reminds me a great deal of Graham's great work the "Custer Myth" which provided a ton or resource...

"Lee's Lost Triumph" by Tom Carhart. (click on the cover to buy the book!) A fascinating narrative -- and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful,...

SIOUX WARRIORS AT LITTLE BIGHORN Montana University American Horse (Wasico Tasunke) (14); Oglala Chief, leader of the Bear People band (12); son of Sitting Bear (11); his brother also fought in the battle (8); later a prominent chief at Pine Ridge Reservation;...

How prisoners of the 7th cavalry were brought back to the village and horribly tortured TORTURE IN THE VILLAGE A whole part of the battle has become totally ignored: we know that the Native American warriors tortured wounded soldiers and mutilated their...